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This sketch for a costume was made for the role of Jitka in Dalibor, a Czech opera in three acts by Bedřich Smetana, first performed in 1868. The plot centers on the story of a Czech knight, Dalibor…
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Geskel Salomon
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Gothenburg, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (Göteborg, Sweden)
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19th Century
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Song without Words, painted in Jaffa ca. 1911–1913. Like many of Jan’s works, this painting is suffused with poetic and atmospheric symbolism. Here, a beautiful young woman with haunted eyes holds a…
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1914
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Johanna Maria Jenny Lind (born Johanna Maria Lind, 1820–1887) was known as the “Swedish Nightingale” and was one of the most highly regarded singers of the nineteenth century. After performing in…
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Eduard Magnus
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1846
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Here, Catherine da Costa, the first known female Jewish painter, has painted her daughter and granddaughter to resemble a Madonna and child. An unidentified woman leans over the infant, seemingly…
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Catherine da Costa
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London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1745
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Seura Chaya # 1 is one of many photographs that Wilke made of her mother and herself when they were dying of cancer. The two separate series were a continuation of her use of her art to focus on…
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Hannah Wilke
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1989
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A woman holding an infant sits on a rock under a gloomy sky at twilight or dawn. In the background is the wreck of a boat. Julius Muhr painted other sentimental and romantic paintings like this one…
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Julius Muhr
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Munich, German Confederation (Munich, Germany)
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ca. 1860s
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Jewish Street in Amsterdam is one of the many landscapes that Tina Blau painted in her career. It is painted in the style of Austrian Stimmungsimpressionismus (atmospheric impressionism), which was…
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Tina Blau
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1875–1876
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To ward off depression while living as a refugee in France, Charlotte Salomon began telling the story of her life in the form of a drama, in hundreds of gouache paintings. This painting depicts her…
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Charlotte Salomon
Places:
German Military Administration in Occupied France (France)
Date:
1941–1943
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Eliseba Lopes Suasso de Pinto, a member of the Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish community, was the wife of Abraham Suasso da Costa, a banker in the Hague. In this portrait, she is depicted smiling, in…
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Johannes Vollevens II
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The Hague, Dutch Republic (The Hague, Netherlands)
Date:
1727
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The Arrest of the Deserter depicts a scene from an 1844 comedy, Dominique the Deserter, set in the seventeenth century. Rebecca Solomon painted domestic scenes and scenes of modern Victorian life, but…
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Rebecca Solomon
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1861